Category Archives: Top Stories
NASA's astrobiology rover Perseverance makes historic Mars landing
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely o...
Feb 18, 2021 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS
Local COVID roundup 2/18: region ICU bed availability drops again
PEORIA, Ill. -- Three residents of the Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county died between Wednesday and Thursday from COVID-19 complications. In Tazewell, a man in his 50s passed. A Peoria County man an...
Feb 18, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 2/18: vax delivery still slow
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Wintry weather continued between Wednesday and Thursday to stifle shipments to Illinois of the coronavirus vaccine. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported only 4,300 mo...
Feb 18, 2021 Midwest Communications
Dr. Kasper: Just being out in the cold won't make you sick
PEORIA, Ill. -- Growing up, your mom probably insisted that you put on your coat and hat to avoid catching a cold. But, is the old adage really true? Dr. Doug Kasper, Infectious Disease Specialist wit...
Feb 18, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley (file)
Madigan resigning IL House seat
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has announced he is stepping down from the seat he has held for decades. He released a statement: The 78-year-old Chicago Democrat w...
Feb 18, 2021 (Illiniois General Assembly)
Winter storm pulls away from Texas, but millions still without power
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - The winter storm that crippled the Texas electrical grid is moving out of the state, but freezing temperatures remain, hampering attempts to restore full power as residents ...
Feb 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Residents line up in their vehicles to enter a warming center and shelter after record-breaking winter temperatures, as local media reports most residents are without electricity, in Galveston, Texas, U.S., February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Pritzker's delivers third balanced budget proposal, doesn't increase income taxes
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- In Gov. J.B. Pritzker's annual State of the State/Budget Address Wednesday, he delivered a balanced budget proposal that does not include increases in income taxes. "I started wit...
Feb 17, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 2/17: region ICU capacity goes down
PEORIA, Ill. -- Five Peoria County residents between Tuesday and Wednesday became casualties of COVID-19. Two of them, both women in their 80s, were long-term care facility residents. One lived at Cor...
Feb 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 2/17: wintry WX slows vax shipments
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The winter storm that slammed most of the United States this week has wreaked havoc on COVID-19 vaccine shipments. The Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed Wednesday onl...
Feb 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh dead at 70
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Provocative and polarizing U.S. talk radio luminary Rush Limbaugh, a leading voice on the American political right since the 1980s who boosted, and was honored by, former Presid...
Feb 17, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Rush Limbaugh gives an introductory speech before U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 21, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
